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Rebecca Hewer
Role
Dr Rebecca Hewer is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED and leads GENDER.ED’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Reading Group (GSS-RG).She is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED, and is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Sociology, School of Social and Political Sciences.
Her research explores the socio-legal regulation of (primarily) women’s bodies, the politics of knowledge production, and feminist utopian thinking. She is particularly interested in reproductive and sexual governance and justice, and prefigurative policy reform.
Dylan Walch
Role
Dylan Walch is the 2024-2025 Vice President of Education at the Edinburgh University Student Association.He is responsible for representing students on issues of learning and teaching, and is also the key Sabbatical Officer contact for EUSA’s Programme and School Representatives.
Hemangini Gupta
Hemangini is a Senior Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics at the School of Social and Political Science. She has a PhD in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies. She researches and has teaching interests in transnational feminisms, postcolonial and decolonial theory, and gender and sexuality in the South.
Hemangini is also an ‘Annual Research Showcase’ and ’16 Days Blogathon’ Event Lead, and the Co-Convener of ‘Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World.’
Radhika Govinda
Role
Dr Radhika Govinda is a former Director of GENDER.ED (2023 - 2025).She is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Principal Investigator of the project Teaching Feminisms, Transforming Lives. Her work demonstrates the importance of understanding gender politics at the intersections of caste, class, race/ethnicity and religion in women’s and social movements, in development policies and practice, in everyday social relations, and in the global dynamics of knowledge production.
Emma Gieben-Gamal
Role
Dr Emma Gieben-Gamal is a Lecturer in Design Cultures within the School of Design and Joint Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for ECA.Her work is driven by an interest in the relationship between design and identity and is increasingly motivated by a commitment to social justice.
Agomoni Ganguli Mitra
Role
Dr. Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra is Lecturer and Chancellor’s Fellow in Bioethics and Global Health Ethics, and Deputy-director of the JK Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and the Law.Her research is concerned with global bioethics, structural and gender justice. ethical issues related to global health emergencies, public health, global surrogacy, sex-selection, biomedical research, and racism in health.
Ben Fletcher-Watson
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Dr Ben Fletcher-Watson is the Administrative Manager at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.At IASH, he supports the work of visiting scholars and helps to present regular events across the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and beyond.
Patricia Erskine
Role
Dr. Patricia Erskine is Head of Stakeholder Relations & Policy Officer for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.Wannes Dupont
Role
Dr Wannes Dupont is a Lecturer in the History of Sexuality at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology and an Associate Director of GENDER.ED.Dr Wannes Dupont is an Associate Director of GENDER.ED.
He previously taught at Yale-NUS College (Singapore), Utrecht University (Netherlands), and the University of Antwerp (Belgium). His work, publications, and teaching primarily concern the European and global history of sexuality, and the intersections of biopolitics and religion.
Kate Davison
Role
Dr Kate Davison is a Lecturer in the History of Sexuality at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.Her research interests span the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries in global, world and transnational perspective, as well as postcolonial, archive, museum, and memory studies. She is currently interested on the psychiatric treatment of queer desire and gender during the Cold War, and some of her research will be published in her forthcoming book, Aversion Therapy: Sex, Psychiatry and the Cold War (Cambridge).